ECTS - University of Pisa
The student who completes the course successfully will be able to design the footings of buildings and civil constructions, to perform the safety assessments, and to determine the settlements, either of the superficial or deep foundations.
The student will be assessed on his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents using the appropriate terminology.
Before the exam, an exercise is assigned to each student. The exercise concerns the executive design of the foundation structures of one assigned civil building. In the exercise, the student must demonstrate his/her knowledge to solve practical problems. The design choices adopted must be suitably justified in the oral exam, both from the point of view of structural design and through appropriate calculations.
With the oral presentation, to be made to the teacher and the other students, the student must demonstrate the ability to approach a circumscribed research problem, and organize an effective exposition of the results.
Methods:
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
Attendance: Not mandatory
Teaching methods:
Limit analysis design, upper and lower bounds. Bearing load of foundations, both in drained and in undrained conditions. Italian standards NTC 2008. Calculus of settlements. Soil-structure interaction. Design of superficial and deep foundations.
C. Viggiani, Fondazioni, CUEN, 199.
R. Lancellotta, J. Calavera, Fondazioni, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
Lezioni di fondazioni. Per gli allievi del Politecnico di Torino, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018.
P. Ventura, Fondazioni - Volume 1 Modellazioni (seconda edizione), Hoepli, 2019.
P. Ventura, Fondazioni - Volume 2 Applicazioni (seconda edizione), Hoepli, 2019.
